Disability Rights At Risk, 7 States Back Case Attacking Key Protections, Warehoused Institutions, TX v. Kennedy

[Sweet Rosie Red]

5. As a disabled American

currently receiving services under Olmstead, I will simply say that evidence shows that caring for people in the community is proven to be cheaper than institutionalization and provides higher quality care. I will also state for the record that I worked in some of those institutions as a young woman, before my childhood spine injury knocked me out of the workforce. I quit the field and went back to school because I felt I was denying my own humanity by the way the institutions forced me to treat the patients. I will cheerfully die before I will leave my home. Mr Sweet, a former teacher and social worker, agrees. So if they do this they might as well be promoting suicide.